[Tyler]

Emotion Recognition System for Autistic Children
     

Children with the neurodevelopmental disorder known as Autism often have
difficulty with social interaction, in part due to an impaired ability
to intuit the emotional state of other people. Researchers at Nanyang
Technological University have been working on a project that may help
Autistic children by augmenting their emotional recognition
artificially. Dr.
Cho Siu Yeung with PhD students Nguwi Yok
Yen and Teoh
Teik Toe of the NTU Center for
Computational Intelligence describe their system in a newly
published paper, "Intelligent
System to Help Autistic Children Recognize Emotions". The paper is
in a pay per view commercial journal rather than an open scientific
publication but the abstract gives a hint at what their working on:
The system is capable of locating the face region using
derivative-based filtering and recognizing facial expressions using [a]
boosting classifier. The portable device is being developed to help
autistic children understand the emotions of surrounding people. The
portable facial expression recognizer locates the edge of the human face
through Gaussian derivatives, Laplacian derivatives and filters out
non-face images using Adaboost. Secondly, the feature locator finds
crucial fiducial points for subsequent feature extraction and selection
processing. Finally, the meaningful features are classified into the
corresponding classes.

The Autism assistance device is a case-study for a more complex Neuro-Cognitive
Computational Framework that has been under development since 2005
and combines visual cues such as facial expression, gestures, and
posture with "understanding of emotional tags in semantic memory
learning structures" and auditory cues. This more general framework
could be used for other applications in machine intelligence and robotics.
   

http://robots.net/article/2938.html
     

[one]

Tyler,
Quit giving me hints.I know I come across as grumpy. 

J.